BIFA 2025 Nominees

Richard Harris Lifetime Achievement Award – Winner

EMILY WATSON

Best Ensemble Performance – Winner

Warfare – Starring: KIT CONNOR

Best Cinematography – Winner

SEAMUS MCGARVEY – Die My Love

Best British Independent Film

The Ballad of Wallis Island – Starring AKEMNJI NDIFORNYEN. Casting: CATHERINE WILLIS

I Swear – Starring: STEVEN CREE

My Father’s Shadow – Writer and EP: WALE DAVIES. Director of Photography: JERMAINE EDWARDS

Urchin – Cinema Release – Starring: KARYNA KHYMCHUK

Best Screenplay

WALE DAVIES – My Father’s Shadow

Best Joint Lead Performance

EBADA HASSAN – Brides (with Safiyya Ingar)

ANDREA RISEBOROUGH, BRENDA BLETHYN – Dragonfly

Breakthrough Performance

EBADA HASSAN – Brides

Best Debut Screenwriter 

HUNTER ANDREWS – Wasteman

WALE DAVIES – My Father’s Shadow

Best British Short Film

Flock – Director of Photography: LINDA WU

Best Editing

RONAN CORRIGAN – LifeHack